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    Power Apps Code | Build and deploy using the new ‘pa CLI’

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    August 10, 2026

    Power Apps Code Apps let you host a React or Vite app inside Power Apps. The CLI you use to build them now groups its commands under pa. Lets build a code app from an empty folder, run it locally, and publish it to Power Platform. Prerequisites Make sure you have…

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  • GitHub Copilot

    Ponytail | Make Your Coding Agent Write Less Code

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    August 9, 2026

    Coding agents like GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, and Cursor tend to write more code than a task needs. Say we ask the agent to add a date of birth field to a signup form. It may install a date picker library, write a wrapper component, and add a stylesheet.…

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  • Copilot Studio

    Copilot Studio | Build an Agent using Skills

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    August 7, 2026

    Skills are the reusable building blocks of the GitHub Copilot harness. A skill is a Markdown file, and it can carry supporting files with it. In this post lets build a skill package from scratch, upload it to an agent, and watch the agent load it on demand. We will use a…

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    Copilot Studio – Call an agent from a workflow

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    August 6, 2026

    In an earlier post we built an agent that calls a workflow. Now lets flip the direction and call an Agent from a Workflow. We will build both artifacts in the GitHub Copilot harness. If the harness term is new to you, start with Copilot Studio Harnesses. Note: We kept this demo simple on purpose. The goal…

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  • Copilot Studio

    Copilot Studio – Build an Agent to Automate Employee Onboarding

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    August 5, 2026

    Lets build an employee onboarding solution in Copilot Studio, on the GitHub Copilot harness : I covered the harnesses in Copilot Studio Harnesses. Read that first if the term is new to you. What we are building Two pieces that work together. Why this scenario Onboarding process touches most of the components of the…

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    Copilot Studio ‘Chat’ – Build an Agent using Natural Language in the GitHub Copilot Harness

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    August 5, 2026

    Copilot Studio ships a Chat tab in the GitHub Copilot harness. You describe the problem in plain English and Copilot Studio builds the agent or workflow for you. I covered the harnesses concept in an earlier post : Copilot Studio Harnesses  In this post lets build an agent end to end from the Chat tab…

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    Copilot Studio Harnesses – Understanding the GitHub Copilot Harness

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    August 5, 2026

    Copilot Studio went generally available with the GitHub Copilot harness on August 3, 2026. Along with it came a term many of us are seeing for the first time, Harness. In this post lets understand what a harness is and how many types Copilot Studio offers. We will also cover how Skills replace Topics, the licensing, and…

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    GitHub Copilot CLI | Save your session transcript

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    August 3, 2026

    The /share slash command exports a GitHub Copilot CLI session to a file or a shareable location. It is useful after a troubleshooting session, when the conversation needs to be attached to a support ticket, a pull request, or an issue. The command supports Markdown, HTML, GitHub gist, and a shareable GitHub…

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  • Agent365

    Agent 365 | Bulk reassign orphan agents using Agent management rules

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    July 31, 2026

    Lets say you are the tenant admin and you noticed a bunch of orphan agents. Their makers left the organization and nobody owns those agents now. Did you know that you can reassign them to the previous owner’s manager in bulk? That is exactly what the Reassign ownerless agents created with…

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    GitHub | Stacked Pull Requests

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    July 30, 2026

    GitHub stacked pull requests let us split that work into small, dependent pull requests. Each pull request stays focused, while GitHub shows how the complete change fits together. What Problem Do Stacked Pull Requests Solve? Assume we are writing an article named Running Coaching Tips. The complete article has three sections:…

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